The Takshanuk Watershed Council would like to give a hearty “Thanks!” to everyone who helped make the Wild and Scenic Film Festival a great success! It was standing-room-only at the Chilkat Center on Friday evening as we enjoyed a showing of local art, films, good food and drink, and some lively community spirit that even […]
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Nonprofits receive $23,000 in grants
Funding for Haines’ domestic abuse safe house is bolstered for another year, KHNS’s antenna will be repaired and the Haines Farmers Market will accept food stamps next summer with the help of this year’s Chilkat Valley Community Foundation grants. The CVCF released its list of 2019 grantees at the Chilkat Center last week where it […]
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Festival celebrates 25 years
The American Bald Eagle Foundation is celebrating its 25th Annual American Bald Eagle Festival next week. With reduced ferry service and less regional participation, the American Bald Eagle Foundation is encouraging more Haines residents to join in the festivities. “We tried to keep a local focus with hopes of seeing a lot of the Haines community come out,” said […]
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Interview with candidates for the Haines Borough Assembly seats
Do you think the borough’s current level of taxation is appropriate? If not, how would you change it? Sally McGuire: About one-fifth of our sales tax (over $500) is a dedicated tax for tourism and economic development. I would like to see this go into the general fund. It was intended to boost tourism back […]
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Eagle festival participation in a tailspin with no ferries
As of Monday, the American Bald Eagle Foundation had only 17 out-of-towners registered for its November Bald Eagle Festival, well below the 100 registered participants that is typical this time of year, said foundation executive director Cheryl McRoberts. Organizers don’t expect many more out-of-town attendees since the Alaska Marine Highway System last week released a sparse winter […]
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Arts Outlook
First Friday abloom with art, activities May’s First Friday is abloom with puppets, paintings, plants and more at participating businesses. Port Chilkoot Distillery tasting room manager Caitie Kirby will display her own artwork on Friday, May 4 in the tasting room. Kirby said she’ll be showing a collection of oil on canvas paintings “expressing mood […]
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Six candidates vie for two seats in assembly race
Residents Diana Lapham, Sally McGuire, Zephyr Sincerny, Sean Gaffney and Gabe Thomas filed candidacy for two vacating seats on the Haines Borough Assembly, joining applicant Paul Rogers, who registered last week. Lapham, a three-decades long Haines resident and former assembly member from 2013 to 2016, said she was solicited by community members to campaign for a […]
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Duly Noted
Going in for their routine veterinarian appointments, some Haines pets have been greeted by a National Geographic film crew. J.R. Myers’ cats, Spunky and Sassy, were filmed during their physical exams Nov. 3 at the American Bald Eagle Foundation. The crew has been following veterinarian Dr. Michelle Oakley, who is based in Haines Junction and travels to rural communities of the […]
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Thank you from the Haines Women’s Club
The Haines Women’s Club has so much to be thankful for! Another Independence Day and another Haines Women’s Club Pie/Root Beer Float sale have come and gone. As a club, we have so much to be thankful for. 1) The Weather! I mean, WOW! 2) All the people who came out to play (and eat, […]
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Heat, smoke stifle the Chilkat Valley
Haines residents are combating record heat by scrambling to purchase shorts, ice cream and the town’s supply of fans. On July 6, thermometers reached 90 degrees for the first time since 1975 – 27 degrees hotter than average for the day – as residents struggled to cope with a heat wave. “Every day people come […]